jak2002003

For me it is balance. 

Often, people with too much wealth and money seem to go off the rails and have mental health problems, addictions, and act like jerks. 

Also, how can they know if their friends or the people that they share their life with really care / love them for themselves or for their money?  Also I know of plenty of rich people who are grumpy and miserable and hate human beings....probably because they can become self centered. 

The again, living in poverty is hell...no opportunity to better your life with education and no privaligeas.  NO security for health or if things go wrong. 

It would be paradise of everyone got the same amount of money and the extremes of poverty or mega rich did not exist.. 

Being materialistic definitely does not make people happy from what I've seen. They always want more and are never satisfied. 

If I could choose i would have enough money so I did not have to worry about health costs, food and housing, bills etc. And some left over for nice holidays around the world occasionally. 

7 hours ago, bignok said:

 

I disagree. I had clinical depression. Drs did not help. Most drs have no idea what to say to you, give you pills then send you home.

 

 

OK.. So how did you overcome the depression yourself? 

You believe you know more than trained, qualified, experienced doctors...... from things you watched on You Tube? 

And you are giving advice to people with depression not to seek medical help and just look on Google for a natural home remedy? 

Seriously.......? 

5 hours ago, Bundooman said:

Is this before or after the vicious little vermin have bitten your ankles or legs multiple times?

That is very unlikely to happen if you followed the advice I gave.  

People are more likely to get bitten when they act scared, run away,  or start acting irratically by waving sticks or trying to hit the dogs. 

Seems many here are confusing feeling depressed / upset / down (which every human goes though sometimes) with clinical depression (which is mental health disorder). 

Being depressed or low due to traumatic or bad things happening in your life is normal and can be overcome over time.  Here the advice about getting out and about, diet and exercise will help. 

'Real' depression usually has no immediate reason.  It can happen to someone who has the best life, is active, healthy, social and fulfilled.  Once it strikes the sufferer will spiral downhill.  It is not cured by morning walks or getting a puppy or taking vitamins. 

It needs professional medical help. 

3 hours ago, save the frogs said:

and how do you propose doing that when there are dozens if not hundreds of incidents throughout our lives, not to mention daily news that causes this repressed anger?

 

See a psychiatrist doctor.  

It's not a normal thing to have repressed anger... Especially to the degree it will make you flip out and murder someone for a trivial reason.. 

19 hours ago, save the frogs said:

alcohol brings out repressed anger.

maybe 50% of murders involve alcohol?

i don't get drunk anymore.

and i don't hang out with drunk people. 

 

Maybe don't have repressed anger. That's not healthy to repress emotions.. 

When I get drunk I am never angry...i just want to go to sleep.  Repressed snooziness. 

Those lovely Muslims agsin. 

Good.

OP... I gave up on that a long time ago, 

So me and my partner got married back in my home country, and we are moving out of this place to live there again.  

I am sorry to say, don't hold your breath waiting for them to legalise same sex marriage here, especially now, with the current people running the show. 

51 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

“If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant, and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden, and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel, then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones".

Deuteronomy 17:1-20 

 

"The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel".

Deuteronomy 17:12

 

"That certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you, you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again."

Deuteronomy 13:13-18

 

Seems pretty clear to me, and there's plenty more.  But of course, the bible is to be treated as a buffet. You take the bits you want and leave those you don't.  I mean, it's not as if it was the foundation of a religion or something.

 

 

 

 

 

They say these books are their holy books and the word of God and you can't question it.  

I like to remind religious parents of this:

Leviticus 20:9

Hsre god tell parents it is okay to kill their children of he curses them.

I wonder how that would hold up in court...you know, we don't want to offend religious peoples rights to follow their religious books teachings.. ????

25 minutes ago, Sigmund said:

Definately no doubt though that you ... you have not read any of the religious books (Koran, Bible, Torah...)

 

You are completely confusing the point between what is written in these religious book and how it is interpreted by the radicals, belivers in their hate preachings and sayings.

I was brought up strick Christian. Know bible verses off by heat. And my brother is a church leader. 

You said it yourself.... How it's interpreted. 

Religions are manipulators and manipulate their rules and teachings.  Better off without them.. 

I don't think you can have any other interpretation of commands to smash  babies heads against the rocks..or none believers will go to hell.... .when that is what is clearly written in these books. 

1 hour ago, Sigmund said:

In a Church a Mosque or a Synagogue...religion is plainly an excuse and outlet for many freaks who just want to take the readings out of context and spread their hate with preaching extremists.

 

The Bible, the Coran, the Torah and so on,  have never advocated for hate in their texts.

What?  Have you read them? 

They are all on about hell and punishment, damdarion and eternal torture. 

They tell their believers to go out and either convert people to their reigion or kill them...smash babies heads on rocks, force raped women to marry their attaxker.  Their gods also kill and smite the enemy nations and lands of people who don't believe in that religion. 

So basically the man is too sensitive to be in prison.  He got upset on his first day inside and was rushed out as he could not cope. 

I would think most people would have high blood pressure and feel stressed on their first day in prison.  It's not some happy relaxing holiday resort.  

Anyway... I recons this is fake yall.  All done in a movie studio and Sci fi effects. 

On 8/25/2023 at 7:59 PM, transam said:

Oh dear, I hope she likes fish head soup..........????

Don't worry.  If she gets a high blood pressure reading and feels a bit sick due to the stress of going to prison on the first day...... I am sure she will be helicopters to a private air conditioned hospital room to relax with basic comforts. 

3 minutes ago, CecilM said:

Can we bring this forum to 21st century functionality? Like adding a feature to edit (spelling) mistakes?

There is that feature

 After you posted you can edit the post by using the 3 black dots on top rigjt of your post. 

This brings up a menu and edit is one option that can be selected. 

2 hours ago, drtreelove said:

Ha Ha, lazy man!

Market bought oranges and other chemically grown food are unlikely to be healthy and high nutrient density. Grow your own with good soil fertility and water management. 

Orange trees have 'nice' fragrant flowers 

Haha. Well, maybe.a bit...but I soeak from experience. 

There is a reason that oranges are produced only in certain areas of Thailand. 

They are suited to different attitudes, temperatures and rainfall, soil makeup, micro climates etc.  

We can get the soil mix OK for them..but if the area the op is living in is too hot for them or the climate is not optimal then the tree will constantly have problems with diseases, pests and poor health. 

The same goes for the fruit itself...likely low quality, poor taste and texture or diseased.

It's a nice idea to have lush orange tree producing big juicy oranges in your garden...but the reality is usually different and dissapointing. 

Limes do very well at low altitudes here in CM.  But not oranges. 

12 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Just an example.....

You go to Savannakhet and obtain a ME Non O marriage and enter Thailand.

Visa valid for 12 months

You need to make a TM30.

 

That visa is multi when you exit and reenter you do not need to file another TM30 

Em... Technically you do.  When you return, if you don't do a TM30, your 90 day report will be refused.  And you will have to update the TM30 and pay a fine.

It's possible you could get lucky a few times, but they will get you eventually. 

When you return to your house from abroad or from a hotel within Thailand, your wife or you should go and update the bloody stupid TM30. 

This is the official law... But many immigration offices pick and choose how they enforce it..or when.

Just now, JonnyF said:

I'm not saying we should ban anything.

 

But we should acknowledge what it is. And that is Religious Bigotry.

Yes.  Most Muslims will say LGBQ people should be illegal or killed. 

That's because it tells them that in the Koran and they stick to it strictly. 

If they are going to be like that how can any gay people like Muslims?  

It's beyond me how religious people of most religions expect other people to have to follow their religious rules... And how society can tolerate these religious nutters that have all that hate for non believers, gays, women or other religions.

Religion is not compatible with modern developed society. It's prinative and backward. 

I can't tolerate religion that makes believers violent or hateful to other people or ways of life. 

2 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

About an nonenity!

Someone like the rest of us. Everyone deserves respect as a human being even if we dont understand them.  ....unlesss they are a murderer or evil person deliberately harming others. 

10 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Why are you?

What?  

Because I do care.

42 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

I hope not and don't care!

 

Yet you care enough to read and comment on this thread eh? 

For what reason do you comment here?  Seems just to be pushing your agenda against such people. 

On 8/23/2023 at 7:18 PM, scottiejohn said:

Why Should we post unfelt and bogus RIP's for a nonentity that we know nothing about?

If that is you view, then why are you posting negative comments on the death of a young person that you know nothing about.?